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GOOD WEIRD QUEER BAR: THE BOILER ROOM IS MANHATTAN’S FRIENDLIT GAY BAR
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If Chelsea was where “the perfect gay people lived” back the ‘90s, he says, “the Boiler Room was always chill and e as you are.